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Has spring sprung in your area?

It's starting to look like it has here - a few garden weeds are starting to grow and I'm seeing more insects like flies and mosiqtoes. Cheers!

Posted - February 28, 2018
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  • 46117
    Oddly, it has been uncommonly warm here in Phoenix this winter until this week.  Now it's cold.  (for Phoenix, that is)

    We had frost this week on car windshields.  That is huge down here where it stays above zero forever and usually does not even dip to freezing in the winter months.



    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at February 28, 2018 10:18 AM MST
      February 28, 2018 9:25 AM MST
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  • 6988
    I've heard stories about the southland getting snowstorms and they can't drive in the snow. My Ohio born cousin was offered money to haul scared friends around in a Birmingham, Alabama snowstorm. 
      February 28, 2018 12:39 PM MST
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  • 22891
    yes, and im so glad to not have ice and snow so much
      February 28, 2018 10:17 AM MST
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  • 44614
    We have some garden weeds, the neighbor's crocuses have popped and the robins are back. It's a good start.
      February 28, 2018 10:17 AM MST
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  • 72
    Yep. The lake is freeing itself of ice and the annual casualties of thin ice are beginning to accumulate along the shoreline, a deer, a fox, (what looks like) a dog, (what looks like) a pig, and some smaller unidentified casualties.
    Someone will need to get out there with a shovel soon, or the early tourists may be offended, and then the predatory tradesmen and greasy-spoon proprietors would resume their endless complaints and demands.
    [It's disgraceful - it aught never be allowed!]   
      February 28, 2018 10:47 AM MST
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  • 6988
    Is your last name Tone?  We may be related.
      February 28, 2018 12:42 PM MST
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  • 72
    At some point along our respective massively multiple Hominidae lines of descent there will be common ancestry bh. Do you know to which haplogroup you belong?  
      March 1, 2018 9:27 AM MST
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  • Absolutely. Spring is in full bloom here, quite literally. That said, on Monday we had so much hail that it looked like several inches of snow had fallen, and temperatures at night are in the 30s. The weather is quite erratic. 
      February 28, 2018 11:07 AM MST
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  • 44614
    But of course, there's no climate change.
      February 28, 2018 1:54 PM MST
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  • 14795
    No....just the worst snowfall in southern England today for ages....:( 
      February 28, 2018 11:55 AM MST
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  • 13395
    Not yet. Had a good snowfall couple of days ago and the forecast is for cool weather March and April. 
      February 28, 2018 12:00 PM MST
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  • 44614
    I thought it was always cool up there.
      February 28, 2018 1:55 PM MST
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  • 13395
    Yup but sometimes we get these Arctic fronts that hang around for long periods. 
      February 28, 2018 3:37 PM MST
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  • 2219
    I noticed a daffodil try to sprout yesterday. Today it was hit by the Beast from the East, as we call the recent snowstorm in the UK.

    As usual they're blaming the Russians.  
      February 28, 2018 1:23 PM MST
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  • 44614
    With collusion, of course.
      February 28, 2018 1:56 PM MST
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  • 3719
    Been listening to The NOW!!! Show?, have we? :-)
      March 3, 2018 8:25 AM MST
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  • 44614
    Just the news...at least five minutes of each broadcast. I stopped listening.
      March 3, 2018 11:09 AM MST
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  • 5354
    Nope. Today was the coldest sofar this winter.
      March 1, 2018 12:39 AM MST
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  • 5451
    No, it's definitely still winter.  Spring doesn't start to spring here until mid-April.
      March 1, 2018 2:48 PM MST
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  • 16779
    Still summer. 90F (32C) today.
      March 1, 2018 4:03 PM MST
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  • 5354
    darn aussies ;-)) Just wait 6 months then you get yours :D
      March 2, 2018 2:56 AM MST
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  • 3719
    It had sprung, but my poor little narcissi and crocuses (croci?) now look very sick and sorry after being battered by strong cold winds and a couple of inches of powder-snow that partially melted then gelated more-or-less solidly.

    Thawing now - in the rain.

    (SW England, and on a broad peninsula backed by a ridge that with the sea usually keeps the area a degree or so above the temperature a few miles inland. This lot came from more East than North though, so the ridge didn't do much to help.)


    {Edited to correct typo} This post was edited by Durdle at March 3, 2018 11:10 AM MST
      March 3, 2018 8:30 AM MST
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